Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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droit du seigneur

[French "right of the lord"] Hist. 1. A supposed customary right of a feudal lord to have sexual intercourse with a tenant's bride on her wedding night. 2. A supposed custom requiring sexual abstinence by a couple on their wedding night. - Also spelled droit de seigneur. - Also termed jus primae noctis.